Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.